Anasazi Indians

In the Anasazi tribe, women and men worked together harmoniously to support their community. Women often took care of farming, pottery-making, and weaving, while men focused on hunting, building, and protecting the tribe. Each role was valued and important, contributing to the overall well-being of the tribe in a beautiful way.

The Navajo have a very different and larger sense of personal autonomy than most American families. From the time a child first laughs it is seen as a fully autonomous being. This means parents explain things and teach things but do not order children to do things (or anyone else). It is thought that they can learn from their own mistakes better. So children are and were seldom scolded. If there was any discipline it was often done by your mother's brother (maternal uncle) not your father. You belong to your mother's clan. It is said you are "born for" you father's clan. A child is expected to gradually learn what it is to understand clan and family relationships and the relationships to the world. This is called K'e. A child is expected to slowly learn to moderate and control his/her emotions and speech and actions. To be balanced and moderate. To not be able to control them is a sign of being a child. Teaching was and still is seldom done with direct instruction but more with indirect stories. Children are expected to not be lazy, to get up at dawn and help out and to not complain. As they get bigger they were and sometimes today still learn to help out with the sheep and planting and growing corn and other crops. As they get bigger if they were a girl they might learn to help with shearing, sorting, cleaning, carding, spinning, dyeing and weaving the wool. If they were a boy if their father did silverwork or another craft or was a ritual practitioner they might learn to help out. In the older days they would learn to hunt. They would catch rabbits and other small game as kids. today some people still hunt in the mountains but with rifles. They would learn prayers and chants and songs and taboos. Some people still do. About 30-40% are now only christian so they don't today. Everyone is expected to slowly learn how to create and maintain Hozho in their inner and outer worlds. This central Navajo concept encompasses in one word the English ideas of harmony, beauty, the good, health, happiness, and balance. It is both a way to seeing and thinking about the world and a thing to be created. For this reason, perhaps the majority of Navajo take part in some art or craft.
I would like to note that the word "were" is not really appropriate and most Navajo kids would not like it. They ARE. There are 300,000 enrolled Navajo members and most live on or near the Navajo Nation which is where is always has been in the modern states of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. There are many school on the Navajo Nation and all kids go to K though 12. There is also Dine' college and several other schools for after 12th grade.

The progression of the stars served as a calendar in the sky, suggesting when it was time to plant, to hunt for particular game and to move the camp. In addition, the Native Americans dabbling in astrology, trying to read signs for individual activities.

There is, incidentally, a movement today to replace the Greek Constellation Zodiacal names with Native American versions. It's unlikely to make much headway in scientific circles, but as an alternative it can be fun. Here are the substitute constellations:

Aries the Ram becomes the Red Hawk;

Taurus the Bull becomes the Beaver;

Gemini the Twins becomes the Deer;

Cancer the Crab becomes the Flicker;

Leo the Lion becomes the Sturgeon;

Virgo the Virgin becomes the Brown Bear;

Libra the Scales become the Raven;

Scorpio the Scorpion becomes the Snake;

Sagittarius the Archer becomes the Elk;

Capricorn the Goat becomes the Snow Goose;

Aquarius the Water Bearer becomes the Otter;

Pisces the Fish becomes the Puma.

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The Anasazi Indians, thought to have disappeared mysteriously in prehistory, more likely migrated elsewhere due to climatic change or other causes due to population increases. Pottery and other technologies that were common to them have been found in recent years in areas south of Mesa Verde: Río Grande Valley, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma and other pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico.

Both the Anasazi and Iroquois are Native American civilizations that had complex societies, constructed impressive architectural structures, and relied on agriculture for their sustenance. They also both valued spiritual beliefs and practices in their cultures.

The lokota used coup sticks to prove there bravery.

One major cultural difference between the Anasazi and the Mississippians was their geographic location. The Anasazi lived in the arid southwestern United States, while the Mississippians lived in the eastern woodlands. Another difference was their architectural styles – the Anasazi built cliff dwellings and pueblos, while the Mississippians constructed large earthen mounds and palisade walls. Additionally, their subsistence patterns differed, with the Anasazi relying more on agriculture and the Mississippians engaging in a combination of farming, hunting, and gathering.

Researchers are uncertain as to why mounds were built in the shape of birds and snakes. Some theorize that this was because the people who built such mounds had great respect for these creatures.

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They built granarys. You can still see them in canyon country to this day. The ones that survive are usually under overhung cliffs and bricked up with stone and mud. They have small doors that were blocked up to keep out the rodents. You can still see corn cobs in some of them today. They are usually about the size of a big closet or small walk-in closet. There were others that were in the open but they have not survived the weather.

During the Pueblo III period ( 1100-1300 A.D. ) the Anasazi began to build the cliff dwellings for which they are most famous. Many buildings in these villages under the cliffs were several stories tall. These villages were in places that were easily defensible, suggesting that they had maybe acquired enemies that they did not have in earlier periods, although the reasons for these types of buildings are not really known.

Alright, the Anasazi.

I know they disappeared from Chaco Canyon in New Mexico a long time ago. There are many theories on how they disappeared. They also created the city of Pueblo Bonito, which is still there today. There was once a tree in Pueblo Bonito, a Pinerosa tree, which grows in the mountains. They must have spent a lot of time caring for it for religious purposes. Once it died, they must have left because they didn't think it was sacred anymore. Another reason is that they didn't feel that Chaco Canyon was the place for them to be, so they left and at every destination, they would yell "Haaku!". One day, they got an echo. So, they found that place ans settled there. They could have died by lack of water(?). They could have been forced away by their enemies. The Hopi, Acoma, and Zuni tribes claim to be their descendants. The "Haaku" theory had to do where the Acoma People live now.

In the Alcheaic Period(sorry if I spelled that wrong), they hunted the deer and turkey almost to exctinction, so they had to live off of corn, beans ,and squash. Because of this diet, their children became shorter and shorter. Sometimes they would find a deer, and eat it. They had these tools called "Mano Metates" which are little stone grinders that they use to grind their corn. Since it was made of sandstone, the grit mixed in with the grinded-up corn so the would eat that and possibly, their teeth would fall out!!

They also had little religious places underground or partially under that called kivas. In the Basket-maker Period, they lived in Pit Houses and before that they lived in caves. Kivas are like churchs to us and the anasazi had special indentions in them like sipapus, which the Hopi and Acoma tribes believe that their ancestors came out of the earth through a sipapu. They would have to carry circuar discs in the kiva that were VERY, VERY heavy. Sometimes they would drop these and the rock would cut of their fingers. So they could be toothless and fingerless. *shrugs* When they would beat against their foot-drums, and since the kiva is under ground with the only entrance was a ladder coming down from the roof, the sound would bounce against the walls and go right back into their ears. OUCH! So they possibly could be deaf. *shrugs*

Hopefully you enjoyed that! If you visit Chaco Canyon, you can go see some petroglyphs they went behind! ;)

No one knows. They left no written record. We don't even know what languages they spoke. Their descendants speak many languages.

The Anasazi used pottery for cooking their food on open fires. They also used pits of hot coals in the ground. Their method was similar to using a Dutch oven.

to have something to look at so they can know when their crops and stuff have grown.

At the time the Anasazi Indians lived in Mesa Verde it was a rich fertile area with forest and water. Plenty of game and an ideal place to live for an early people.

They had a diverse diet but their staples were corn, beans, squash, sunflowers and domestic turkeys and small game. They also had pinon nuts, yucca fruit, many berries, cactus fruit and wild greens and seeds.

The Anasaziâ??s trade routes spanned the western part of North and Meso-America. They owned valuable turquoise and copper mines that gave them prize trade goods to make exchanges with. This turquoise and copper has been found in Mexico, and parrots and seashells from the Gulf of Mexico have been found in Anasazi ruins.

In the southwest United States - the four corner region.

The modern Pueblo Indian groups of the Southwest are their direct descendants. They started leaving the areas they were living and moved to the south and east in the time between 1200 and 1300 AD.

The Anasazi are people who lived in the high plateau four corners area for 800 years until 1300. In the 1200s they started moving south and east and consolidating in the locations of the Modern Pueblo peoples. Some of them moved to the Hopi mesas. The Hopi were at their location as early at 1000 AD. They share in the same culture. They trace many of their clans and rituals to different Anasazi locations. The Hopis and Pueblo people are the Anasazi's direct descendants. Today there are about 18,000 Hopi members of the Hpoi Nation mostly on the three mesas on the southern edge of Black mesa were they have always lived, to the northeast of Flagstaff. About 75% speak Hopi. Many still farm corn and participate in complex rituals. Attached is the Hopi Nation website.

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